Short Biography
- Blake was born in 1757 in England.
- He was a poet, printmaker and painter.
- He was influenced by William Butler Yeats, Hart Crane, Kahlil Gibran, Allen Ginsberg and many others)
- His father, James, was a hosier.
- He remained in school only long enough to learn reading and writing, he left at the age of ten.
- He was educated at home by his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake.
- Then he started engraving copies of drawings of Greek antiquities.
- His famous works,Raphael, Michelangelo, Marten Heemskerk and Albrecht Durer.
- William starting work Shows knowledge of Ben Jonson and Edmund Spenser.
- He became apprenticed to engraver James Basire of Great Queen Street, for the term of seven years in 1772.
- At the age of 21, he was to become a professional engraver.
- At the Royal Academy, William In 1779, became a student.
- Blake married Catherine in 1782.
- His first collection of poems is called Poetical Sketches, which was printed in 1783.
- Blake composed his unfinished manuscript An Island in the Moon in 1784.
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion, he condemned the cruel absurdity of enforced chastity and defended the right of women.
- In 1804, he returned to London and began to write and illustrate Jerusalem.
- William died in 1827.
William Blake Works:
All Religions are One
There is No Natural Religion
Songs of Innocence
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Continental prophecies
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Europe a Prophecy
Songs of Experience
The Book of Los
Milton a Poem
Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Illustrated by Blake:
Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories from Real Life
Edward Young, Night Thoughts
Robert Blair,
John Milton, Paradise Lost
John Varley,
R.J. Thornton, Virgil
The Book of Job
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